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Be brewed some light beers with fruit extracts added into the bottling bucket and keg which came out good but I've never been able to extract the fruit flavor from adding natural fruit into the secondary. Any recommendations?

Ive been planning on using some of my second runnings to marinade chicken or something. Has anyone done this or know of any good recipes for wort or hops?...besides in beer

I've never had a problem with starsan ruining mg beer but 2 of my friends that I brew with think that the foam in the Carboy is going to ruin the beer when you rack it into the fermenter. Who's right?

I plan on adding the coffee to the secondary for my mocha stout but I've heard of cold brewing coffee, hot brewing, or just adding the beans. I'm trying keep the bitterness low. Any recommendations?

Ive brewed a couple kits from brewmasters select and I've been about a gallon low each time although I'm right at my OG. Do you think the recipe's are wrong or am I doing something wrong?

I'm brewing a mocha stout that calls for cocoa nibs. I think the coffee flavor will be pretty strong when I add it but I don't want the chocolate to be overly intense. Should the cocoa nibs go in the mash, boil, flameout, primary?

I've seen some apps that are over $10. Are any of them worth it?

Have 1 white labs yeast vile which I plan on using for a 10 gal batch of cream ale. I have a stir plate and some DME. How much DME should I use and how long should I stir the yeast before I have enough yeast to pitch?

I have a 5 gal batch of Christmas ale that fermented through the airlock a few days ago. It's been about a week since brew day so I racked it into the secondary. There was hardly any yeast at the bottom of the bucket and still a thin layer of krausen on top. Do you think this could hurt the...

Ordered two 5 gal all grain kits from northwest of the holiday ale. I was planning on brewing both together. Do I need to adjust any of the ingredient ratios or hop schedules?

I've been looking into building a single tier brew stand of some kind. I've been leaning towards something like the Brutus 10 but I've seen some other cool systems including electric. What do you have that works well or what would you have done differently? I don't want to spend a fortune, but I...

I'm looking at building something similar to the Brutus 10. I'd like to make something single tier that is quality, but fairly cheap. I have to keggles right now that I could use to brew in. Any ideas?

I'm about to make my second oatmeal stout but I was thinking about adding about 1lb of honey to increase the alcohol content. Any thoughts? How much could the taste change?

I soaked some of my empty bottles in an oxyclean solution to remove the labels. After rinsing and sanitizing in starsan, I noticed a white haze on the inside of the bottles. Will this ruin my beer if use these bottles?

This is my first 5 gal batch (weizenbier) and it's day 5 in the primary and fermentation seems to have slowed/stopped. I was thinking about moving it to my 5 gal Carboy to finish. Should I move it to the secondary fermenter and if so, how soon?

This is the third day of fermentation of my first 5 gal extract batch. Yesterday the airlock was bubbling quite a bit but it seems to have died down a lot already. Is it normal for it to calm down so much by day 3?